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on purpose

intentionally. The idiot who set the fire on purpose is in jail, but that doesn't help the families who lost their homes.

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As if planted on purpose for him, there soon appeared a little tuft of maples, with a delightful recess in the midst, and such a fresh bubbling spring that it seemed never to have sparkled for any wayfarer but David Swan. From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context But this sort of thing seems done on purpose to vex us. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context Once I resolved to take the stage-coach to West Chester, on purpose only to have the satisfaction of coming back, that he might see me really come in the same coach; for I had a jealous thought, though I had no ground for it at all, lest he should think I was not really in the country. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context More results

References in classic literature

As if planted on purpose for him, there soon appeared a little tuft of maples, with a delightful recess in the midst, and such a fresh bubbling spring that it seemed never to have sparkled for any wayfarer but David Swan.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

But this sort of thing seems done on purpose to vex us.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Once I resolved to take the stage-coach to West Chester, on purpose only to have the satisfaction of coming back, that he might see me really come in the same coach; for I had a jealous thought, though I had no ground for it at all, lest he should think I was not really in the country.

The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context

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